Steve Moore, Officer in Charge of the IA Watson Grains Research Centre at Narrabri [...] in September 2008 checking the outstanding new field pea variety Maki. ”With the release of more adaptable high yielding and improved disease resistant varieties, field peas could easily become a 50,000 ha crop in central and northern New South Wales and the southern Queensland cropping zone. Maki [...], the latest release from the region, is a giant step forward for field peas and increases the reliability and performance of the crop in a big way”.